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J. WORRALL.

APPARATUS FOR WASHING A-ND. DYEING.

(No Model.)

,095. Patented July 28, 1 885.

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J. WORRALL. APPARATUS FOR WASHING AND DYEING.

(No Model.)

. Patented July 28, 1885.

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' UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE- LANCASTER,

APPARATUS FOR WASHING AND DYEINC.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 323,095, dated July 28,1885. Application filed December 29, 1884. (No model.)

known, to prevent the lay of the pile.

In the machines hitherto constructed on the most approved plan muchdifficulty has been found in getting access to the parts, and the costof constructing and working such machines has been considerable. By thepresent arrangement, which simplifies the construction of the machinewithout detracting from its efficiency, a material economy in space issecured, and all the parts are readily accessible to the attendant.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1,

.Sheet I, shows in longitudinal sectional elevation my improved machinefor washing and dyeing pile fabrics. In Sheet II, Fig.2 is a transversevertical section of the machine; and Figs. 3 and 4 are detached views ofone of the winces or heaters drawn to an enlarged scale.

A A are a tank, which is to receive the cleansing or the dyeing liquor,and B B are a pair of octagonal standards, which are braced together bycross-stays and set up on the bottom of the tank. These sta11dards,withtheir transverse braces and vertical supports B B, constitute a framefor carrying the bearings for a series of winces or heaters, C O, and aseries of guiderollers, D D.

The bearings for the guide-rollers consist of short pedestals set at theangles of the octagon frame. At the uppermost angle, however, thestandard is branched to carry two guiderollers, D D under which thecloth to be operated upon, respectively, passes when entering andleaving the machine.

The winces or heaters are arranged in two concentric rings, 0 G and G 0,around the octagonal framing, and their bearings are carried bystandards made fast to the fiat edges of the octagon standards. Thestandards carrying the winces or heaters of the external ring are higherthan the standards carrying the guiderollers, and those carrying thebearings of the inner ring of winces are shorter than the guide-rollerstandards.

The fabric to be operated upon is led down from an elevatedguide-roller, E, into the machine under the roller D, then under thefirst of the winces O, and over the first of the winces O to the secondguide-roller D, over which it passes, and so on through the whole seriesof heaters and rollers until it comes to the guide-roller D whence itpasses to the card-roller F, to which rotary motion is imparted for thepurpose of drawing the cloth through and out of the tank. From thisdrawing-off roller the cloth is led past a guideroller, and thence tothe folder G, which deposits it in folds upon a table, H, ready forremoval from the machine.

The winces or heaters O 0 receive rotary motion from a spur-wheel, I,keyed to a central shaft, 1, the bearings of which are carried by thetank A and the octagon framing. Gearing into this spur-wheel I arepinions I keyed on the axles of the winces C. These pinions drivethrough pinions I spur-pinions I on the axles of the winces or heatersO. V

For driving the spur-wheel Iat the requisite speed, a pinion, I is usedfor transmitting the motion thereto. short shaft, I", mounted insuitable bearings, and carrying fast and loose band-pulleys whichreceive a strap from overheadgearing.

The tank, it will be seen, is of such a depth that when fully chargedwith liquor one-half only of the winces will be submerged. -When,however, it is thought desirable, the depth of the tank may besufficiently increased to submerge all the winces or heaters. In suchcase the winces used will he of the ordinary construction but when, asinthe present instance, one-half of the winces only are submerged, some orall of those above the tank are made to dischargeliquor onto the fabricunder treatment. For this purpose I make the winces, say, of the outercircle, as shown in side elevation and transverse section at Figs. 3 and4, where c is a hollow axle receiving the detergent or other liquor froma fixed pipe, 0, inserted into a gland fitted in the end of the axle.

This pinion is keyed to a The bars 0 of the wince or beater are madehollow, and connected by hollow arms 0' with the axle c, which armsserve as channels for conducting the liquor from the axle to the bars0'. These hollow bars are slit nearly from end to end to provide apassage for the discharge of the liquor onto the cloth as it passes overthem, and to prevent the closing of the slit by the cloth while held attension over each bar of the wince in succession, ribs are formed onopposite sides of the slit to take the strain of the cloth and cause itto bridge over the slit.

The wince or beater is intended to discharge liquor from. each bar 0 insuccession, and only at the time that the bar is in contact with thecloth. To provide for this, the fixed pipe 0, which passes from end toend of the hollow axle e, is provided with vents situate in the plane ofthe revolving arms 0". Thus, as the arms severally come into coincidencewith these vents, they will be supplied with liquor under pressure,whichwill be ejected from the slits of the bars 0 onto the cloth in the formof intermittent jets.

Supposing, now, the cloth to have been led through the machine in themanner above explained, its out pile face being outward,and rotarymotion to have been imparted to the machine through the driving-pulleyand spurgearing above described, the rotary heaters O acting upon theinner side or back of the traveling fabric, and the rotary beaters 0acting on the face of the fabric, will impart to it a rapid vibratorymotion, and thereby give the pile a tendency to stand upright from thebase of the fabric. As the heaters O and O rotate in opposite directionsthey will neutralize the drag which they severally put upon thetraveling fabric, and thus protect the fabric from any undue strain.

In some cases I propose to use only one series or ring of rotaryheaters, which will then act upon the back of the fabric like thebeaters G.

The agitation imparted to the cloth will so effectually separate thefibers of the pile as to render unnecessary much of the brushing whichis at present required to raise the laid pile and to give the requiredfinish to the fabric.

In the machine just described, washing or detergent liquor or adye-liquor may be indifferently used, so far as the action of themachine is concerned; but the manufacturer will readily understand thatit is necessary to limit the use of his machinery to either the washingor dyeing operation.

Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my saidinvention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declarethat what I claim is In a washing and dyeing machine, the combination ofa tank for containing liquor with a frame carrying a ring ofguide-rollers and two rings of winces or beaters concentric with therollers, the guide-rollers serving to present the fabric as it is drawnthrough the machine to the action of the heaters, such beaters beingdriven in opposite directions by gearing operated from the centralshaft, and serving while the cloth is presented to the action of theliqnor to impart to the cloth a rapid vibratory motion, for the purposeabove set forth.

JAMES VVORRALL.

Witnesses:

WILLIAM SLATER, Jr.,

Notary Public, Manchester. HENRY WORRALL,

Dyer, ri e, Salford.

